Weekly Newsletter

missions
and outreach

MEETING
Wednesday Night, August 3rd, at 7:30pm
Join us this week as we plan for the Sangamon River
Festival and the fall activities that will glorify God and
encourage our missionaries both local and global.
Everyone is invited to come

Mr. and Mrs.

Andrew McCue

AWANA is gearing up for the Fall!

Mini-Conference/Training, Monday,
August 8th, at Bible Baptist,
Champaign, Illinois at 6:30-8:30pm.
We will have a leaders meeting at
CEFCM on Tuesday, August 9th, at
7:00pm that should last roughly 1 hour.

Join us August 2nd, from 6-8:00pm,

for the final session of Evangelism is
Relationships, at Los Zarapes
Mexican Restaurant.
We will be meeting in their private room
and the meal will be on your own. We
will review the past sessions and then
complete the final one together.
If you werent able to attend the first
two sessions no worries - we would
love to have you join us for this
meal and a time to see what it
means to be equipped to love our
neighbors well.

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When: August 13th
Where: We will be leaving CEFCM at
9:30am sharp. The canoe trip is at
1:00 Eastern time & we have to be
there by 12:30. The canoe trip is the 6
mile trip lasting 2 and 1/2 hours.
More information:
www.sugarvalleycanoes.com/tripinfo.html

This past weekend we had the joy of having the

children join us in our 10:45am worship service.
Michelle Shafer shared with them how Jesus is our
light, and then the kids led the congregation in
worship by singing He is the Light and This Little
Light of Mine.

$22 for each canoe (that is for 3 adults

or 2 adults & 2 children under age 8) or
$16 per kayak. (Cancellations after
August 7th will be charged $5.)
Afterwards: We will meet at the Beef
House for dinner in Covington, Indiana
at 5:00pm.

Finally, Pastor Jason shared out of John 8:12, where

Jesus says: I am the light of the world and that we
are these little lights of His! It was an awesome
Sunday!

Study and Swim is

Tuesdays at 2:00pm!
All girls school age and older are
welcome to come study the Old
Testament Prophets together, enjoy
a snack and a swim in the pool! So
bring your Bible, swim gear and
your friends to
Study and Swim.
The McCues live at 704 Sunset Drive,
Mahomet. For more information call
Katy McCue
at (217) 714-7949.

answer is nothing less than new heavens and

new earth.

On November 1st, 1755, Lisbon, Portugal, was

struck by a massive earthquake. It was All
Saints Day and because of that all the
churches were filled to capacity with
thousands of worshippers. Within six minutes
30 churches were utterly destroyed and over
15,000 people died. Those who survived ran
down to the waterfront in hopes to get on one
of the ships and escape the aftershocks.
Those that did were struck by 3 massive
tsunami waves that swept over the city killing
thousands more. In addition to all this, candle
lamps and cooking oils toppled over in the
aftershocks and great fires raged for days
killing more and more people. In total, within
the span of less than a week, more than
30,000 people died, and one of the worlds
greatest shipping ports was in ruins.
Watching from France the philosopher Voltaire
saw this tragedy as proof that no reasonable
person could believe in a good and just God.
Voltaire mocked the faith of the church and
men like Alexander Pope in England who said
that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
Voltaire said, Isnt it painfully obvious that the
world isnt right and certainly not the best of all
possible places? If this is the best of all
possible worlds, then what of the others?
Looking at what happened then, and what is
happening now, I think that some of us would
sympathize with Voltaires struggle. In a world
where bad things continually seem to happen
to good people it keeps getting harder to
maintain the kind of optimism that Alexander
Popes had.
The world is a hard place to live in, but hard
does not equate to hopeless in Gods
economy. Because God is at work and
continuing to do something about it, and his

Isaiah 66:22-23 For as the new heavens

and the new earththat I make shall remain
before me, says the Lord,so shall your
offspring and your name remain.From new
moon to new moon,and from Sabbath to
Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship
before me, declares the Lord.
Friends, God is not just patching up a broken
world every time it breaks down. He is out to
remake it, totally, wonderfully, and on a scale
we cannot fathom, for all of eternity. Gods
answer to the prayers that we pray for revival,
restoration and reconciliation is nothing less
than, new heavens and a new earth
We will only truly move toward that target
when we worship God as God. In Isaiah 66:23
it says clearly that all flesh shall come to
worship before me. This is emphasized by
the fact that the final chapter of the book of
Isaiah is primarily about worship. The gravest
problem in our world today is false worship.
Isnt that the primary complaint in Romans
1:21 which says, For although they knew
God, they did not honor him as God or give
thanks to him
What the prophet Isaiah wants to tell us is that
we enter into Gods promised future through
true present worship, and by doing that, the
church becomes a living testimony to Gods
plan and purposes.
When a church worships and hopes fully in the
majesty of Christ and His work of salvation, it
becomes a foreshadowing of something
greater, a prophetic witness of His word, a
living invitation to join in a promised future:
new heavens and new earth - the only
glorious message that is guaranteed to
succeed.
Join us this Sunday as we start the Book of
First Peter and look at what it means to
Hope Fully in a world that feels hopeless.
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SHIRTS
AVAILABLE

Monday

Tuesday

8/1

Church Office Open 12-5:00pm

Martial Arts 6:00pm

Study and Swim 2:00pm

EIR Discipleship Dinner 6-8:00pm

8/2

Wednesday 8/3

9:30am

Youth Group 6:00-8:00pm

Purchase a
shirt to wear as
you serve as the
church - $7
(Small, Medium, Large. XL, 2XL)

Thursday 8/4
Saturday
Sunday

Worship Practice 7:30pm

8/6

Mens Coffee 7:00am

8/7

Christian Education 9:30am

Adult Gospel Project with Jim Sackett

Standard Lesson Series with Bruce Henrikson
A Womans Heart Gods Dwelling Place
with the ladies of CEFCM

Childrens Sunday School 9:30am

Kids Church 10:45am

Worship Gathering 10:45am

Pastor Jason Homeless but Hopeful